The Barker Family

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Crawl.

My baby is crawling!!! I am so very proud of my big little man. I guess the next step is baby proofing the house. Good thing I have the next few days off from work- finally!!

Sunday, July 26, 2009

4th of July Pictures

As I mentioned in the previous post, we had a blast celebrating the 4th of July with Zack's family. Here are some pictures...

James chillin' in the pool

Sweet Hattie

Max

Scott & Max

Z-Diddy

MiMi and Hattie

Hattie Caroline

MiMi and James

Ryan and Max

Me and James

Mel and Courtney

Zack and Sam

Paw Paw and James

Mel and Zack

Sunday, July 19, 2009

Wow- It's been over a month since I've updated this little blog. We've been very busy at the Barker house!! Well June was a very special month...Hattie Caroline Crawford was born. She is so beautiful and sweet- we are so happy for Courtney and Scott. We also went to Sea Island for Bo and Collier's beautiful beach wedding...we were able to stay with Jane, Andrew and their little ones- what a wonderful treat. To finish up June, among other things, we spent a weekend at the Lake with Joe and Rachel, put our house on the market, and had BaBa's 6 month check up (90th for height, 50th-75th for weight, and 95th for head circ.).

July has been super busy...Zack's Dad was in town for a few weeks from New Hampshire and we had so much fun spending time with him- James loved playing with Grandpa!! Aunt Kathleen, Dad, Rudy, Will and Adair all celebrated their birthdays- Happy Birthday everyone!! We had a big 4th of July shindig at Zack's Mom's house and got spend time with his sisters and their families as well as his Aunt Robin and cousin Rachel from LA, Aunt Elaine and Uncle Scotty from TN, and James got to meet Baby Hattie.

Hattie & James

Then my biggest nursing home had State Survey so I worked the next week non-stop- but all was well, and when it was over we packed up Zack's truck (umm- so packing for a week out of town with a 7 month old is insane- who knew someone so tiny could require so much stuff!!!) and headed to Bear Mountain (Cashiers, NC). We had a wonderful long weekend with my parents, the Swinharts (including Samantha :)), and The Sanfords. I'll update with more pictures later!! AND Mom and Dad celebrated their 37th wedding anniversary on the 15th!! Happy anniversary!!

James happenings:
Sitting up by himself
Has 2 teeth
Loves his Jumperoo and Exersaucer
Says: DADADADADA and BABABABABA and clicks his tongue all the time
He loves to laugh, and will currently laugh hysterically at the following: sneezing, peek-a-boo, lifting him in the air, and letting him grab my hair
Went swimming for the 1st time- 1st at the lake and then at Mimi and PawPaw's
AND... last night when he was supposed to be asleep we watched (via the baby monitor) him pull himself up to a standing position in his crib
He is one sweet boy- we are very blessed!!

I'm uploading pics but its taking a while so here are a couple Zack took in NC last week....

Monday, June 8, 2009

Lake Baby

Here are a few pictures of Baba James from our latest trip to the lake...

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Who da thunk it??

I'll post pics to accompany this post later- they're on Zack's camera.

James has started trying solid foods. The doctor said he could start trying stuff at his 4 month appt, but for whatever reason we started at his 5 mo birthday.

So rice cereal and oatmeal were a hit. (well...maybe I should say he seemed ok with what little made it in his mouth)

Next we tried squash. I had heard to start with lighter colored veggies (easier to tolerate) and the squash at Publix looked yummy so I steamed Baba James (this is what Lucas calls James and now everyone calls him Baba...I am so afraid it is going to turn into Bubba.......but that is neither here nor there...)some squash and pureed it in my cool baby food machine my parents gave me. James seemed to like it.

Next we tried Avocado. Zack & I love it... but humm would a 5 month old like Avocado? I mashed one up and added a little water and oohhh did Baba love it.

So oatmeal check, squash check, avocado check...time for some sweet stuff. I raved to Baba about how wonderful his dinner would be and how much he would love the sweet treat he was going to taste. All the books I've read say baby's prefer sweet food so I knew this was the start of something wonderful. He was going to gobble it all up. Well, let me tell you, Baba James has proved them wrong. Baba HATES!! HATES!! HATES!! applesauce. Thinking the sour face and turned head may have just been a fluke (maybe he was tired, maybe his tummy hurt), I thought I'd try it again today. Nope! Today Baba blew bubbles in the spoon spraying it all over my face, gagged, pushed the spoon away, and made the most disgusted look you've ever seen. I guess we will be trying applesauce again at a later date... a much later date.

Well, it's back to veggies...I never would have thought a baby would prefer avocados mashed in water over applesauce. Humm what to try next???

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

"...I found him whom my soul loveth"

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO THE MOST WONDERFUL MAN!! ZACK YOU HAVE TRULY BLESSED AND ENRICHED MY LIFE. YOU HAVE THE MOST KIND, GENEROUS, AND FORGIVING HEART OF ANYONE I KNOW. I AM BLESSED TO BE YOUR WIFE. I LOVE YOU MORE THAN WORDS CAN EXPRESS!! THE PAST THREE YEARS HAVE BEEN A BLAST!! I LOVE YOU!!

"...I have found him whom my soul loveth" Song of Solomon 3:4

"Don't urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD deal with me, be it ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me." Ruth 1: 16-17

3/7/06 Royal Plantation Ocho Rios, Jamaica

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Where did April go??? (in pictures)

Below are some pictures from April (and a few from March & May too). These uploaded backwards so the timeline is reversed. Please note that there is a new post below as well:

Zack running in his first race. Run Zack Run....